About every two decades, an interloper hits the market; becomes highly successful, and the business model gets skewed again. One time, it was Walmart with its predatory march to destroy all small businesses wherever their latest dandilions popped up. Communities feared for their merchants when Walmart opened and later feared for their own economic survival when they closed. [...]
On slow days, I let my inner “news junkie” out. Last weekend, I watched a CNN story about blind North Koreans who have had government sponsored operations hoping to restore their vision.
The blind Koreans were brought to the front of a crowded conference room for the reveal. The eye bandages were removed, and the emotions [...]
Wegman’s is an upscale food market. People who shop there do so believing they are having high quality shopping experiences. This store have some amazing stuff to back up their image.
I shopped there Saturday at midnight to avoid the crowds. There was me and about six others banging around. One lone cashier earned his paycheck by looking [...]
In the Army, my friends and I played a game of trivia that floated for months. We spend our off-game time looking for killer questions to ask. We never really finished the game. We all got pretty sharp at trivia, and no one was the clear winner.
A lot of time passed and some marketing wizards developed [...]